FREDERICTON-New Brunswick’s education minister quit on Thursday and published a blistering resignation letter, calling out Premier Blaine Higgs’s leadership and values. Dominic Cardy said in his letter that Higgs has steadily consolidated power and created a disrespectful work atmosphere for public servants. The premier, Cardy added, has delayed or undermined work on reconciliation with cultural communities and First Nations. As well, Cardy said Higgs broke a campaign promise to reform the education system and to take decisions based on evidence and to do politics differently. “Change requires care, not a wrecking ball,” Cardy said, referring to what he said was the premier’s decision to pressure the Education Department to abolish French immersion in schools by September 2023, “an initiative not included in our platform or throne speech.” Higgs was not

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